Building a Digital Immune System
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Tomas Helikar.
The power of computer code has been a longtime fascination for Tomas Helikar, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). In college, when he learned he could use that power to help researchers better understand biology and improve human health, Dr. Helikar knew he’d found his ideal career. Since then, he’s built a successful team of scientists studying the ways we can use mathematical models in biomedical research, such as creating a digital replica of the immune system that could predict how a patient will react to infectious microorganisms ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Bioinformatics Computational Biology Cool Tools/Techniques Modeling Profiles Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A With Physiologist Elimelda Moige Ongeri
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Elimelda Moige Ongeri.
A career path in science is rarely clear cut and linear, which Elimelda Moige Ongeri, Ph.D., can attest adds to its excitement. She went from working in animal reproductive biology to studying proteins involved in inflammation and tissue injury. Dr. Ongeri is also currently dean of the Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences and professor of physiology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in Greensboro. In this interview, she shares details of her career, including a change in research focus to human physiology; her goals for the f...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Proteins Source Type: blogs
Taxpayer Funding for Religious Schools?
This article appeared onSubstack on June 13, 2023The state of Oklahoma hasrecently approved a charter for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, whose curriculum will include religious teaching. Taxpayers will fund the school, so a battle will ensue over whether such funding is desirable or constitutional.Economic reasoning suggests three possible justifications for government support of education.First, one person ’s education might benefit society more broadly. Economic productivity might be higher, for example, if everyone has mastered “the three Rs.” Some individuals, however, might ignore this ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
What Is Medical Coding Automation And Its Potentials In Healthcare?
When it comes to the term ‘coding’, what comes to mind is probably programmers writing software. While this applies to the medical setting in the digital health age, traditionally, medical coding has referred to a specific process. It involves the conversion of medical records, generally from clinician’s texts, into structured codes based on a classification system for the appropriate patient diagnosis and relevant procedure.
The result is clinical information that is consistent and comparable over time and across healthcare departments. Such data can subsequently be used to inform relevant research, policies and,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical coding clinical coding AI AI in medical coding AI in hospitals digital health Source Type: blogs
Affirmative Action in College Admissions
This article appeared onSubstack on May 30, 2023, and an earlier version appeared under Jacob Winter ’s byline in theHarvard Undergraduate Law Review.In a few weeks, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in two cases it heard last fall, one against Harvard and the other against the University of North Carolina. Both suits challenge race‐based affirmative action in college admissions. In each case, a group called Students for Fair Admiss ions (SFFA) argues that the universities’ admissions policies unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans.The case against UNC rests on two issues. Under the Fourteen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Jacob Winter Source Type: blogs
Missa Luba
We had a record of this in the house when I was growing up. I can ' t remember what I knew about it - maybe that it was from Africa, but maybe not which country. (I realise now that " from Africa " is not a meaningful description any more than describingpibroch orcerdd dant as " from Europe " would be). We had a lot of folk music in the house, so perhaps I saw it as folk music. And perhaps there is truth in that.I now have that same record in my house. The front of the record sleeve is shown above.It is on Spotify, and most of it is inThe Planet ' s Greatest African Music volume 2, dated ...
Source: Browsing - May 22, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
Abandoning the US, More Scientists Go to China
David J. BierThe Organisation for Economic Co ‐operation and Development (OECD)—an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries—has publishednew data showing that the United States is losing the race for scientific talent to China and other countries. China ’s strategy to recruit scientific researchers to work at China‐affiliated universities is working.In 2021, the United States lost published research scientists to other countries, while China gained more than 2,408 scientific authors. This was a remarkable turnaround from as recently as 2017 when the United States picked up 4,292 scientists ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Bardavon Health Innovations Offering First-of-its-Kind Safety Intelligence Suite to Protect the Labor Workforce
Bardavon has acquired the injury prevention company, Preventure, to expand its service line focused on personalized solutions that protect against musculoskeletal injuries
Bardavon Health Innovations is furthering their mission of supporting the health and mobility of every worker – everywhere, by launching a complete Safety Intelligence Suite for employers and insurers. By expanding Bardavon’s continuum of care to cover injury prevention in the workplace, employers can now take advantage of a complete, end-to-end musculoskeletal solution.
Over the last 10 years, an average of 30.1% of all injury types involving days...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Artificial Intelligence Bardavon Bardavon Health Innovations Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Labor Workforce Matt Condon MSD Musculoskeletal Care Musculoskeletal Injuries Preventure Safe Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 25: The RFC, Continued
George Selgin(This is the second installment of a three-part essay. The first part ishere.)Big Engines that Couldn ' tAlthough Hoover ' s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was " more largely a banker ' s loan bank than anything else " (Ebersole 1933, 477), financial institutions were never the only firms eligible for its support. Railroads were an important exception from the start, though they were so mainly because financial institutions, commercial banks, and insurance companies especially, were railroads ' main investors. Thanks to New York and other state regulatory authorities ' inclusion of many railroad bond...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 20, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Is the Tide Turning on Compelled Speech in Academia?
Erec SmithRecently, the University of North Carolina voted to“ban” the requirement of politically charged prompts, like diversity statements, from any considerations for admission, hiring, promotion, and tenure. Such statements were deemed “compelled speech” and therefore antithetical to intellectual freedom,UNC ’s Board of Governors approved a policy that disallows making applicants “affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancemen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
A Note on the Unjust Firing of Dr. Tabia Lee
Erec SmithLast week, a friend, colleague, and co ‐Founder ofFree Black Thought was ousted from her position atFoothills ‐De Anza Community College in California. Dr. Tabia Lee ’s transgression: asking questions about DEI initiatives, fighting for viewpoint diversity, and upholding classical liberal values. (Lee explains herself in a video put out by theFoundation Against Intolerance and Racism.)According to anInside Higher Ed article, her alleged insubordination included the following acts:“She questioned antiracist ‘orthodoxy,’ objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
CodaMetrix Closes $55M Series A to Autonomously Power Medical Coding, Boost Health System Revenue Cycles
Born out of Mass General Brigham, and led by healthtech veterans, CodaMetrix empowers health systems to use Artificial Intelligence to prevent revenue setbacks driven by manual coding inefficiencies
Overhauling medical coding is now crucial for health systems grappling with physician burnout, billing backlogs and claim denials, skilled labor shortages, and a graying medical coding workforce
AI-powered, multi-specialty, autonomous medical coding eliminates human intervention, reduces coding costs, improves coding quality and unlocks clinician capacity
CodaMetrix, the leading AI technology platform transforming healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Artificial Intelligence Chris Scoggins CMX CodaMetrix CU Healthcare Innovation Fund EHR Electronic Health Record FCV Frist Cressey Ventures Hamid Tabatabaie Health IT Funding Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
What Would John Henry Rauch Do Today As A HIT Entrepreneur?
BY MIKE MAGEE
Health entrepreneurs today tend to give themselves very high grades, and seem surprised when their creations fall short of expectations due to a disconnect with funders or regulators with legal authority. But Medicine isn’t fair, and genius is not that common.
What other conclusion can you draw from the thousands of references and citations featuring Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and his wild ideas on how to heroically treat Yellow Fever in 1793, but likely never heard of Dr. John Henry Rauch. The former signed the Declaration of Independence but directly or indirectly contributed to many an un...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Benjamin Rush John Henry Rauch Mike Magee public health sanitation Source Type: blogs
14 Ways the Tax Code Subsidizes Higher Education
Adam N. MichelThe federal government subsidizes higher education through a multitude of grants to universities, subsidized loans, and direct scholarship funding. In addition, the tax code includes at least 14 different programs that distort the education system and complicate tax filing. All told, the tax code subsidizes higher education to the tune of $322 billion over ten years.From an education policy perspective, the accumulation of all this federal spending has a distorting effect. Over time, the subsidies havelikelycontributed to thehigh price of college as subsidies increase demand, which drives up prices. This cycl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
What ’s Next For ChatGPT In Healthcare?
You have probably heard that ChatGPT has recently passed business, law and medical exams, qualified as a level-3 coding engineer at Google (with a $180K starting salary!), outperformed most students in microbiology and checked a passable grade in a 12th-grade AP literature test.
Of course, better take these results with a pinch of salt. Although the algorithm indeed did reasonably well on the USMLE test, it was not a full-value assessment as all questions requiring visual assessment were removed.
Pinch of salt or not, however, it is obvious how the capabilities of these large language models have been expanding...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Source Type: blogs
